Monthly Archive: August 2012

137

Scratch controlling the GPIO on a RaspberryPi

This blog is now old hat – I’ve made a new version and much better instructions over in a new blog. Click here ———————————————————————————- This post is intended to make it as Simple as...

3

Scratch GPIO future direction

Having played around with getting Scratch talking to the GPIO and thinking about making a Scratch mod (Razz) to have special blocks to switch pins off and on, I’m settling on just using simple...

0

MarsCuriosity Lander Challenge

This weeks winning entry is at http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/mbateman/2744326 Congratualations In the old days, we all wrote Apollo 11 Lunar Lander games/simulators. (Here is one I made in Scratch  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/SimpleScratch/82204 ) Well now its time to...

25

Auto install a Simple Samba Setup

Following on from a previous blog I’ve tried to emulate MrEngmans brilliant concept of providing a single install script that does as much of the work as possible His idea is to copy a...

10

Treating a RaspberryPi as just another Windows machine

This guide has been superceded by the AutoInstall version http://cymplecy.wordpress.com/2012/08/09/auto-install-a-simple-samba-setup/ but it still shows the process needed to go through 🙂 To access the files on your RPi over your network and to stop worrying about...

0

A Tale of Two Pi

…I’m no longer a SimplePi man – I’m now MrT(au)   I didn’t intend having two so soon but last Friday (3rdAug) I was googling for something when I noticed a sponsored advert for...

2

GPIO Pins on RaspberryPi

This article is for beginners – I know there are wars on the Internet as to what the pins are called but this is what I follow 🙂 ******************************************* When trying to use the...